GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. Anish 01:02 Well, I speak, you know, from a physician lens of some of the patients that I get referred, and by the time there’s. This is not a good option.

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Tiny Physician

JULY 14, 2021

By the end of their internship a few undergraduate medical students would have decided on their favorite branch for residency, based on the limited experience that they had during their internship. By the end of my internship, I was quite interested in Internal Medicine (IM) and wanted to pursue the same for my residency.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. They also noted a distinction in telehealth practices between remote consultations in different states and using telehealth to treat patients who live nearby. Endocrine Society Robert W.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. She was a heart failure patient. What’s in a story?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Eric: So patient narrative storytelling, independent of what we call it, I’d like to turn to both of you and just how you got interested in this as a subject. She was a heart failure patient.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. Shunichi Nakagawa’s Tweet that went viral on responding a patient request to drink ice water before death.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We talked with Thor Ringler, who helped found the My Life My Story Project at the VA and beyond, and Heather Coats about the evidence base for capturing patient stories. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. Because we all interface with it at the end of the day as patients.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Alex 00:08 UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine are looking to build on their research and clinical programs and are interviewing candidates for the associate chief of research position and for full time physician faculty to join them in the in-patient and out-patient settings. Lingsheng, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

And maybe, just maybe, we convince that poetry skeptic Eric Widera that there is a place for poetry in medicine after all. Patient Poets: Illness from the Inside Out. So we are delighted today to welcome Marilyn McEntyre, who’s a longtime teacher of literature and medical humanities. AlexSmithMD. Is that right, Marilyn?

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. And I was an internal medicine resident. Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. One of the patients I spoke to really said this quite well. Do you have pain anywhere?”

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